Connally was known as an immaculate dresser who wore expensive and stylish suits wherever he went.
Ronald Reagan ran as the candidate of Main Street, against the candidacies of John Connally and George H.
Through a Lloyds of London contact, they got in touch with Connally, who then introduced them to the Panamanians.
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Funny as it may seem, President Barack Obama has three things in common with the late John Connally.
Tapping big business, Connally raised more money than Reagan for the 1980 primaries.
After all, in 1980 big business Republicans supported John Connally and George H.
But Connally found himself quickly running out of steam, and money, and suddenly South Carolina became his make-or-break state.
Better it would be if the Fed were to heed the words of Nixon Treasury Secretary John Connally with regard to money.
Into this mix rode John Connally as Secretary of the Treasury.
He was former Texas governor and one-time Democrat, John Connally.
Mr Hale has a controversial past: in 1958, he eloped with his high-school sweetheart, the daughter of John Connally, a future governor of Texas, and the girl committed suicide.
Connally started out the campaign spending freely, winning over people like Thurmond, a true folk hero in the state, and Edwards (who had both been for Reagan in '76).
In 1980, it was the focus of a battle between forces supporting former California Gov. Ronald Reagan and ex-Democratic Gov. John Connally of Texas, a Nixon favorite who switched to the GOP in 1973.
Those wouldn't be the last dirty tricks in South Carolina presidential politics, but they were enough to keep the Connally and Bush camps sniping at each other, and leaving Reagan to appear above the fray.
Reagan, whose state organization was led by Atwater (who, if memory serves, was aghast at Bush's campaign tactics) and freshman Rep. Carroll Campbell, won the primary decisively, and Connally dropped out of the race the next day.
Reagan ran as the man of Main Street against the Big Business candidacies of John Connally (who would set a record for the most campaign dollars spent to win Republican convention delegates--just one, in Connally's case) and George H.
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